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Exploring the frontiers of the mind, from the latest in neuroscience to the enduring questions of consciousness.
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Material-based intelligence is a new paradigm where matter itself can learn, adapt, and self-organize, moving beyond the limits of traditional hardware. #science #material #intelligence

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Material-Based Intelligence Is the Future of Tech That Can Actually Think - Daily Neuron
Material-based intelligence is a new paradigm where matter itself can learn, adapt, and self-organize, moving beyond the limits of traditional hardware.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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A new Near-Death Experience explanation called the NEPTUNE model is being challenged by leading researchers who say it fails to explain key facts. #psychology #neuroscience #science

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A New Near-Death Experience Explanation Faces Major Scientific Challenge - Daily Neuron
A new Near-Death Experience explanation called the NEPTUNE model is being challenged by leading researchers who say it fails to explain key facts.
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November 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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A hard limit of consciousness prevents us from ever knowing total reality, a "no-jootsing theorem" that explains the true nature of the human mind. #philosophy #consciousness

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The Surprising Limit of Consciousness You Can Never Jump Over - Daily Neuron
A hard limit of consciousness prevents us from ever knowing total reality, a "no-jootsing theorem" that explains the true nature of the human mind.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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This new quantum cognition model uses visual diagrams to map the complex, non-classical processes of human psychology for applications in therapy and AI safety. #neuroscience #cogsci #psychology

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A New Quantum Cognition Model Maps the Hidden Structure of Your Mind - Daily Neuron
This new quantum cognition model uses visual diagrams to map the complex, non-classical processes of human psychology for applications in therapy and AI safety.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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A new study reveals how gut microbes transmit behavior, showing microbes alone can pass traits like activity levels between generations. #evolution #science #behavior

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How Gut Microbes Transmit Behavior Across Generations - Daily Neuron
A new study reveals how gut microbes transmit behavior, showing microbes alone can pass traits like activity levels between generations.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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A new report outlines a rigorous method for assessing AI consciousness by looking for specific computational "indicators" inside AI systems. #AI #Consciousness

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AI Consciousness Might Be Detectable With This New Scientific Method - Daily Neuron
A new report outlines a rigorous method for assessing AI consciousness by looking for specific computational "indicators" inside AI systems.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Scientists built a new framework to predict the exact moment you fall asleep by identifying a ‘tipping point’ in brain activity, not just sleep stages. #neuroscience #sleep #science

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New Framework Can Predict the Exact Moment You'll Fall Asleep - Daily Neuron
Scientists built a new framework to predict the exact moment you fall asleep by identifying a 'tipping point' in brain activity, not just sleep stages.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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New research on how the brain builds itself shows it’s a continuous process, with new cells emerging long after birth in response to experience. #neuroscience #brain #science

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How the Brain Builds Itself as a Continuous Process - Daily Neuron
New research on how the brain builds itself shows it's a continuous process, with new cells emerging long after birth in response to experience.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Is consciousness just a side effect? A new theory argues that consciousness controls the brain through top-down 'psychological laws' that influence neural activity. #neuroscience #consciousness

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Does Consciousness Control the Brain? A New Theory Says Yes - Daily Neuron
Is consciousness just a side effect? A new theory argues that consciousness controls the brain through top-down 'psychological laws' that influence neural activity.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Life appeared on Earth in a geological blink of an eye. But a new paper calculates the info in one cell is too vast to have emerged by pure chance.

It suggests we're either missing a new law of physics... or life isn't from here. #life #physics

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Why the Origin of Life Remains an Impossible Puzzle - Daily Neuron
The origin of life presents a massive informational hurdle, suggesting its spontaneous emergence is so unlikely it may require a new physical principle.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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CRISPR gene editing is a revolutionary tool that may one day halt or reverse neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s by correcting genetic mutations. #neuroscience #crispr #Alzheimers

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CRISPR Gene Editing Offers New Hope Against Age-Related Brain Disease - Daily Neuron
CRISPR gene editing is a revolutionary tool that may one day halt or reverse neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's by correcting genetic mutations.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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The evolutionary functions of consciousness, not the “hard problem,” are the central question for understanding why it emerged, according to new research. #evolution #consciousness

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The Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness Are the Key to Understanding Why We Feel - Daily Neuron
The evolutionary functions of consciousness, not the "hard problem," are the central question for understanding why it emerged, according to new research.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Neuromorphic intelligence offers a sustainable, brain-inspired alternative to the massive energy costs of today's deep learning AI systems. #AI #DeepLearning

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Neuromorphic Intelligence Promises a New Era of Brain-Like Sustainable AI - Daily Neuron
Neuromorphic intelligence offers a sustainable, brain-inspired alternative to the massive energy costs of today's deep learning AI systems.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Deflationary nominalism offers a new philosophical position where mathematical statements can be true without proving that numbers actually exist. #philosophy

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Deflationary Nominalism Suggests Numbers Don't Need to Exist to Be Real - Daily Neuron
Deflationary nominalism offers a new philosophical position where mathematical statements can be true without proving that numbers actually exist.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Mapping neural circuits is now possible at high speed using a new system of AI and holographic stimulation to untangle brain connectivity. #neuroscience #science

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Mapping Neural Circuits Is Now 10 Times Faster Thanks to AI and Holograms - Daily Neuron
Mapping neural circuits is now possible at high speed using a new system of AI and holographic stimulation to untangle brain connectivity.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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A new study on the causal illusion phenomenon suggests we don’t learn false beliefs, but rather fail to correct positive prior beliefs we already have. #psychology #science

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Causal Illusions Might Be Ingrained Beliefs We Fail to Correct - Daily Neuron
A new study on the causal illusion phenomenon suggests we don't learn false beliefs, but rather fail to correct positive prior beliefs we already have.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Emotion and consciousness are fundamentally linked, with new research showing feelings are not a reaction but the very driver of our self-organizing mind. #psychology #neuroscience #mind #consciousness

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Emotion and Consciousness: Not a Reaction, But the Driving Force of the Mind - Daily Neuron
Emotion and consciousness are fundamentally linked, with new research showing feelings are not a reaction but the very driver of our self-organizing mind.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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New research on sensory processing suggests neurons are self-supervised learners that group stimuli by common pasts or futures to make sense of the world. #neuroscience #science

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How Sensory Processing Works: Neurons May Predict the Future and Remember the Past - Daily Neuron
New research on sensory processing suggests neurons are self-supervised learners that group stimuli by common pasts or futures to make sense of the world.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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The evolution of human morality wasn't a passive process of imitation, but a story of groups actively enforcing cooperation to ensure the common good. #evolution #morality

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The Evolution of Human Morality Was About Actively Enforcing Cooperation - Daily Neuron
The evolution of human morality wasn't a passive process of imitation, but a story of groups actively enforcing cooperation to ensure the common good.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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AI Consciousness Claims Increase When Models Focus on Their Own Thoughts: New research finds AI consciousness claims are not random, but emerge predictably when models enter a state of self-referential processing. #AI #Consciousness

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AI Consciousness Claims Increase When Models Focus on Their Own Thoughts - Daily Neuron
New research finds AI consciousness claims are not random, but emerge predictably when models enter a state of self-referential processing.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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A new study finds that a food's sensory properties, not just its nutrients, provide a direct pathway for regulating brain function. #neuroscience #food

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A Cocoa Brain Boost Comes From Sensation Not Digestion - Daily Neuron
The cocoa brain boost isn't from digestion but from its astringent sensation firing a key brain system, a new study finds.
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November 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The "soul" wasn't always seen as our personal "self." This idea had to be invented. Heraclitus was the first to link the psyche (soul) to wisdom and morality. It was a physical, impersonal force, not the individual self we imagine today. #philosophy

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Heraclitus's Concept of the Soul Was Not What You Think - Daily Neuron
Heraclitus's concept of the soul was a physical, impersonal force, not the center of personality we imagine today.
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November 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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The science of consciousness is moving from mapping the brain to testing big theories, with major implications for AI, medicine, and ethics. #consciousness #neuroscience #science

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The Science of Consciousness Enters a New Era By Forcing Its Biggest Theories to Fight - Daily Neuron
The science of consciousness is moving from mapping the brain to testing big theories, with major implications for AI, medicine, and ethics.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Anomalous unconscious processing in schizophrenia, not just conscious thought, may be the root of a disconnected sense of self, a new study suggests. #psychology #neuroscience #schizophrenia #consciousness

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Unconscious Processing in Schizophrenia May Explain a Fragmented Sense of Self - Daily Neuron
Anomalous unconscious processing in schizophrenia, not just conscious thought, may be the root of a disconnected sense of self, a new study suggests.
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November 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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A complete Theory of Everything is impossible to compute, new research argues, and this logical limit proves our universe cannot be a computer simulation. #physics #stringtheory #theoryofeverything #simulationtheory

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Why the Theory of Everything Proves We Aren't in a Simulation - Daily Neuron
A complete Theory of Everything is impossible to compute, new research argues, and this logical limit proves our universe cannot be a computer simulation.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM